Got Your Nose

IN CELEBRATION OF ALL HALLOW'S READ YOU CAN UPLOAD YOUR OWN COPY OF THIS SHORT STORY BY S.E. TOON, NOW UNTIL MIDNIGHT HALLOWEEN NIGHT. 

The only thing you have to fear is fear itself.

Meet your worst fear.

Three teens find themselves the victims of a cruel prank and are locked in an abandoned asylum on, of all days, All Hallow’s Eve.

Even worse, the building knows what really scares them and conjures personal nightmare worlds for each of the intruders.

It is up to each teen to battle the malevolent building’s manifestations and confront the real fears haunting their lives. Only then will they truly be free.

Come inside. Don’t be afraid.

Good luck with that.

  It is formatted as a booklet and has (2) PDF files. One is the text, the other the cover. You can go to your local print shop and have them make the booklet for you (est. cost $2.40) or just read it on your computer. You can also load it into your personal reader if you choose. Copyright. All Rights Reserved. Not for sale.

the link is Http://TalesbyToon.jigsy.com

Special Thanks goes out to fellow storyteller Kymberly Anderson for getting the story up on the web and to my junior high Creative Writing Boot Camp participants, Haley, Mellissa, Alyssa, Alexah, and Allison, who inspired this story during one of our "cluster" sessions. Pleasant screams!

All Hallow's Read Treat

FOR ALL HALLOW'S EVE I AM GOING TO POST A NEW SHORT STORY.

It is entitled Got Your Nose and I will be posting a link to PDFs of the story for you to download. It is formatted to be a chapbook (2 pages fit on 1 8.5x11" page and can be printed as a booklet. There is also a PDF of a cover. You can take the files to your local printer and they will make the booklet for you OR you can read it on your computer, OR you can, if you are device savvy, import it into your reader.

It will only be available until Midnight on Halloween, then it will disappear (spooky,huh?)

The seed of the story came from a Creative Writing boot camp I taught this past summer with a group of creative junior high students.Special thanks go out to Haley, Mellissa, Alyssa, Alexah and Allison for sharing their fears, at first hackneyed then slowly dug down deep to the good stuff. Thanks for sharing. 

What is All Hallow’s Read ?

Scary books. Halloween.

This new tradition is the brainchild of macabre author Neil Gaiman and 2012 will be the third year the event will be celebrated. It’s simple! During the week of Halloween, or on the night itself, you give someone a scary book. It doesn’t take the place of trick or treating, it’s in addition to all the usual Halloween fun stuff. The book should be age appropriate but scary.

Here’s Neil Gaiman’s initial proposal:


On Hallowe'en or during the week of Hallowe'en, we give each other scary books.

Give children scary books they'll like and can handle.

Give adults scary books they'll enjoy.

I propose that stories by authors like John Bellairs and Stephen King and Arthur Machen and Ramsey Campbell and M R James and Lisa Tuttle and Peter Straub and Daphne Du Maurier and Clive Barker and a hundred hundred others change hands -- new books or old or second-hand, beloved books or unknown. Give someone a scary book for Hallowe'en. Make their flesh creep...

Give a scary book.

If you don't know what kinds of books there are, or what would be appropriate for the person you're giving a book to, talk to a bookseller. They love to help, most of them. (The ones that don't tend not to be booksellers for long.) Talk to librarians. (Do not plan to give away their books though, unless they are having a library sale.)

That's it.

Scary book.

Hallowe'en.